I expected Push to be a lot like Jumper, and there are a lot of similarities between the two films. Both feature good looking young people with amazing powers being chased by a bald black man. Both have exotic locations. Both make very little sense, but are still fun to watch. In Jumper the whole world was the film’s setting, but in Push we spend the entire film in one of Hong Kong’s many fine ghettos. Though there is the occasional hint that they might be going somewhere else. There was one scene that was reminiscent of the PreCogs in…
Category: sci fi movie
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Spoilers within. There’s only one of two things you need from a movie critic-one that you always agree with, or one that you never agree with. Gary Cogill is a small time movie critic in Dallas. He has a long bio and list of accomplishments-and I have not trusted his advice on films since he recommended The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. That film is right up there with Peter Jackson’s King Kong when it comes to all time worst movies. Which brings me to The Day The Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves. NOT The Worst…
Blindness-Feel Around for Some Logic
Spoilers within. Blindness is a movie about what happens when people start to go blind for no reason. Think Lord of The Flies meets 28 Days Later-only not quite as interesting as either one. I liked Blindness, but it is a standard issue sci fi premise that something happens-we never find out why-and we then watch as society falls instantly into shambles. I was never sure where the story of Blindness was set-at first I thought it was in Hong Kong or some other large city. It seems to set in America, with a large and impressive bridge half completed…
Babylon AD-Standard Issue Dystopia
The tag line for Babylon AD’s sci fi cliche fest might have been Life Sucks, and Then You Die. Set sometime in a future where we all know exact location by longitude and latitude-we find our usual Vin Diesel anti-hero living out his grim and nasty life as a mercenary. He is trapped in Russia, or some part of it, which has that Post Holocaust dog eat dog, well everybody eat dog, look and feel to it. Everyone wears trench coats and carries machine guns and those who have the money ride around in tanks. He gets a new assignment…
The X Files-No Aliens This Time
Spoilers within With what has to be one of dullest one sheets in recent movie memory, I wasn’t really expecting too much. The X Files-I Want To Believe moves along at a snail’s pace. The story is about a missing FBI Agent and the one Agent at the FBI who thinks former Agent Mulder can help to crack the case. There is an old man who has visions, played by Billy Connolly-who happens to be an ex-priest who buggered 37 altar boys-they seem to think this important as they mention it a lot. These visions are why the FBI seeks…
TR2N-Tron 2
During a Disney panel that was ostensibly set up to promote “Race to Witch Mountain,” the studio waited until the very end to reveal their new version of “Tron.” And the new film has an official title, “Tr2n.” Yes, it is officially a sequel.-MTV Tron was a wonderfully odd film-one of those rare moments when Disney stepped away from traditional cartoons and Escape To Witch Mountain (Disney isn’t really making a new Witch Mountain, are they?) to take on something a bit more serious. If you consider being sucked into a computer and being forced to play video games serious.…
Planet of The Apes starring Charlton Heston
Get your paws off me you damned dirty ape. The Planet of The Apes starts off with a four person crew on a sleeper ship heading into deep space. The Captain is the last one awake and has a few regrets about leaving his world behind. Due to Relativity, everyone he has known is already dead before he enters the sleep chamber. When the ship crashes into a lake, they find the one woman on the expedition has died in cold sleep and only three men are left. They trek across deserts, over mountains, and finally find a wooded area…
Journey to The Center of The Earth in 3D
The problem with 3D movies is that they are made for 3D. Not that there’s really anything wrong with that. After a couple of hours you get used to tree limbs in the corners and the occasional thing jumping out of the screen. It’s all in fun after all. And Journey to the Center of The Earth in 3D was fun. What was a bit of a surprise was the fact that it cost an extra two dollars to see it-I suppose this is to cover the cost of the snazzy 3D glasses they hand you with your ticket. They…
Hellboy II Rocks
Putting Ron Perlman in a red costume was about a million times better than having some programmer whip up a CGI Hulk. There was a ton of far out, incredible, unbelievable stuff in Hellboy II and every damned frame of this film looked great. The gang from the first Hellboy looks like they never stopped filming. There are a few silly things, like Hellboy and Liz having an argument that destroys a hallway and Abe suffering from love at first sight-but it all makes perfect sense in the greater scheme of things. As with all movies these days, lots of…
Stargate Continuum
“If you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything-because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine.“Abe Simpson-The Simpsons Stargate Continuum is about a hundred times better than Stargate The Ark of Truth. But this may have something to do with my love of all things Time Travel and a very literal take on the Grandfather Paradox in Stargate Continuum. It is also worth noting that Stargate Continuum is the first Stargate to be released on Blu-ray. The old Stargate gang is here, watching as Baal-or one of his many clones-has his symbiont…